BlackBerry Internet Service Down for the Count? BIS Outages Reported Worldwide…
By James Falconer on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 11:32 PM PST In BlackBerry, RIM (Research in Motion)
It’s not fun times this evening if you’re on the BIS (BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Internet Service) this evening/morning. Multiple reports of BIS outages from around the world are coming in left right and center. At this time it’s not quite clear what is going on, but all I can tell you is this one looks like a large outage. No specific carrier seems to be in trouble… this one could be a biggie.
So, what do you do at times like this? For me, I’m going to hop into bed… Wake up, and no doubt service will be restored (at least I certainly HOPE so!). Put down the BlackBerry… c’mon… you can do it… Put it down. There. Don’t you feel better now? 
Will update you all when I return to my office in the morning. Like I said, this outage is looking like a biggie, but hopefully service is restored ASAP.
[Via: BGR]
Although I’m a loyal BlackBerry user, this type of outage illustrates one of the big weaknesses with what RIM like to call the BlackBerry infrastructure: it’s a single point of failure.
Seems to still be down here in Miami. What an annoyance oh well we can’t always be bound to technology.
Still down here in Mexico.
My carrier is Telcel.
Sh.t!